amst 101mgw (10310r) race and class in los angeles filephone: 213 prisons and projects: black...

The purpose of this course is to examine L.A.’s diverse population,

not as isolated, discrete groups but in relation to one another. The

city and its environs serves as our laboratory for understanding class,

race, gender, political economy, and most importantly, power. We

will examine, among other things, how the hierarchies of race and

class are produced and reproduced, how gender, ethnicity,

nationality, and citizenship shape people’s experience, and how

aggrieved communities fight back.

Topics will include:

Methodological Tools For Thinking About Race, Space, and

Class

Intersections - Place, Race, and Class

Prisons and Projects: Black Workers in Post-Fordist Los Angeles

The Racial and Class Geographies of

Kendrick Lamar

Building Material and Discursive Walls

Immigrant Labor in Los Angeles

Organizing LA For Racial and Class

Justice

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY

AMST 101mgw (10310R) Race and Class in Los Angeles

Taught by Professor

Juan De Lara

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

11:00-11:50 AM

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills

these requirements: Diversity Requirement

ASE, ASAF, ASCL

Social and Political

Issues

Elective: ASE, ASCL,

ASAS Majors

GE VI (Social Issues)

GE-C (Social Analysis)

GE-G (Citizenship in a

Diverse World)

American Studies & Ethnicity

3620 S. Vermont Ave, KAP 462

Los Angeles, CA 90089-2534

Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

This course offers an introduction to the people and cultures of

the Americas; the social, historical, economic, and cultural

formations that together make up the Latino/a American

imaginary. This course starts with the U.S. Latino experience

then works its way back to understand the origins of

contemporary Latin America. Recent statistics show Latinos

have become the largest minority group in the nation. We take a

closer look into the societies of countries in the Americas and

how their economic and historical past has shaped the course of

the people of the Americas.


AMST 135gmw (10320R) Peoples and Cultures of the Americas

Taught by Professor

Alicia Chavez

Tuesday/ Thursday 9:30-10:50 AM

SGM 101

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills



ASAS Majors

GE II (Global Cultures

and Traditions)





Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

This course offers an interdisciplinary introduction to American

and Ethnic Studies. A principal goal is to help students

understand how people in the United States live in and think

about their country as well as how the world views them. The

central themes and topics addressed will include identity

formation, immigration, imprisonment, militarism, cultural

production, religion, sexuality, and political change. This course

will encourage students to formulate connections between these

issues by placing them in their broad historical and cultural

contexts. We will consider a variety of types of evidence such as

novels, photographs, films, the built environment, and material

culture to show that we can and need to analyze everything in

the world around us.


AMST 200gm (10345R) Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity

Taught by Professor

Alicia Chavez

Tuesday/Thursday 12:30-1:50 PM

THH 212

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills


Requirement: ASAF

Core Requirement:

ASE, ASCL, ASAS,

Core: ASE Minor





Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

Popular culture permeates our everyday lives and has an

enormous impact on how we view ourselves and the world more

broadly. This course engages students in a multidisciplinary

examination of the relation between U.S national culture, race,

and popular culture. Beginning with an interrogation of the

terms “popular” and “culture,” we will develop a theoretical

framework and vocabulary for critically analyzing texts across a

range of different mediums, including film, television, music,

comics, magazines, visual art, Internet communications, among

others. This course presses students to attend to how categories

of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class accrue meaning

through their representation, reproduction, and circulation in

popular culture. Taking seriously questions of power and

ideology, we will unpack the underlying ideals, narratives,

and assumptions of the popular culture we consume on a daily

basis and how they contribute to the exclusion/marginalization

of certain perspectives, practices, and embodied experiences.

This course critically examines the development and influence

of American popular culture as well as the possibilities for

dissent through sub- and/or counter-cultures.


AMST 205g (10360R) Introduction to American Popular Culture

Taught by Professor

TBD

Monday/Wednesday 12:00-1:50 PM

VKC 261

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills

these requirements: Elective: ASE, ASCL,

ASAS Majors

GE-B (Humanistic

Inquiry)




Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

This course examines black social movements for freedom,

justice, equality, and self-determination. Beginning with the

movements to end slavery and bring about full citizenship, we

will examine the role of resistance, institution building, social

thought, and the expressive arts in the collective action of

African Americans and their allies from the 19th through the

21st century. We closely examine the manifestos and agendas

of black abolitionists, women’s rights organizations, Black

Nationalist, radical, and mainstream civil rights groups ranging

from socialists to hip hop adherents, and from presidential

campaigns to prisoners’ rights groups.


AMST 252mgw (10381R) Black Social Movements in the United States

Taught by Professor

Francille Wilson


THH 116

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills


ASAF History


ASAS Majors






Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

Explore the complexities of race and

ethnicity in America through film

What is ethnicity? How is ethnicity shaped, or how does one

“become” ethnic? What is at stake in claims and visual

representations about ethnicity? What politics surround

ethnic representations and performances? How is ethnicity

actualized and/or performed? Can there be an “authentic”

ethnicity? How are such complexities reflected and/or

constructed in film? How did the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite

and other movements call attention to the lack of diversity

and recognition in the

film industry?


AMST 274mgw (10390R) Exploring Ethnicity through Film

Taught by Professor

Chris Finley

Tuesday/Thursday 11:00 AM-12:20 PM

THH 201

*Course fulfills


ASAF Social and

Political Issues


ASAS Majors



Fall 2018

This course employs a wide variety of different popular culture

genres produced by and about African-Americans, including but

not limited to theatre, music, sports, film, dance and literature.

This course critically examines Black popular culture in the

United States and its surrounding politics. Beginning with

blackface minstrelsy, the Harlem Renaissance and Swing, and

ending with Hip-Hop, Chappelle’s Show and Bossip.com, we

will chart chronological and topic driven paths, so as to answer

key questions about the genealogies of Black forms and the

ways in which they have been and are popularized. Recognizing

how gender, sexuality, class, region, and other identity markers

inform race, we will challenge assumptions about the parameters

of African-American popular culture, as well as its political

stakes, aims, and functions.


AMST 285mg (10399R) African American Popular Culture

Taught by Professor

Kimberly McNair

Tuesday/Thursday 12:30-1:50 PM

MHP 101

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills


ASAF Literature and

Culture


ASAS Majors





Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

We will study what historians term “the New West,” by which

they mean how the West has been shaped by many different

historical forces and peoples. Historical accounts of westward

expansion and “manifest destiny” prior to the work of “New

West” historians emphasized “How the West Was Won” by

“pioneers” settling the “open frontier” of the expanding nation.

Reading “New West” scholars like Richard Slotkin, Reginald

Horsman, and Patricia Nelson Limerick, we will also read

novels and view films and visual art works that give us a solid

understanding of how Native Americans, African Americans,

Euroamericans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, women,

and LBGTs have contributed to our lived realities in the West.


AMST 301gm (10408R) America, the Frontier, and the New West

Taught by Professor

Thomas Gustafson


THH 301

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills

these requirements: ASE Social and Political

Issues

American Popular Culture

BA & Minor Critical

Approaches to Popular

Culture

Elective: ASAF, ASCL,

ASAS Majors, ASE Minor

Elective: ASE Minor

GE I (Western Cultures &

Traditions)

GE-B (Humanistic Inquiry)




Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

Examination of Los Angeles diverse food

cultures as well as the food justice issues that

affect many low-income residents of

neighborhoods surrounding USC campus.


AMST 343 (10419R) Food, Health and Culture in Los Angeles

Taught by Professor

Sarah Portnoy

Wednesday 2:00-4:50 PM

GFS 109

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills

these requirements:

Elective: ASE,

ASCL, ASAS

Majors

Elective: ASE Minor




Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

Native Nations across North American hold a

unique legal relationship with the United States

federal government. This course examines the

social, cultural, legal, and historical contexts in

which that relationship was created and persists.

Students across disciplines are

welcome to engage in this

500-year old conversation

about Indigenous rights to

land, water, and sovereignty.


AMST 345 (10346R) Law and American Indian Studies

Taught by Professor

DeAnna Rivera

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

10:00-10:50 AM KAP 113

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills

these requirements: Elective: ASCL, ASAS

Majors

ASE: Social and

Political Issues

Native Studies Minor

Elective: ASE Minor




Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

AMST 350 (no prerequisites are required!) will explore narratives of

freedom and abolition within the context of settler colonialism, white

supremacy, the prison industrial complex, education, and heteropatriarchy.

This course uses film, history, immigration law, LA museums, art, music,

memoirs, political movements, women of color feminisms, and queer

theory to address historical inequalities and how oppressed communities

have struggled for freedom, humanity, representation, and justice. We

will attempt to answer these questions: How and where can we imagine

freedom in this historical moment? What work do we need to do together

to make this a reality for all peoples?


AMST 350 (10424R) Junior Seminar in American Studies and Ethnicity

Taught by Professor

Chris Finley

Tuesday 2:00-4:50 PM

GFS 114

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills

these requirements:

Core Requirement:

ASAF, ASAS, ASE,

ASCL Majors and

ASE Minor




Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

Explore the complexities of Latino

social movements in the U.S. Comprehensive introduction to Latino participation in social

movements and US politics. Focusing on six Latino groups -

Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Salvadorans,

and Guatemalans - this course explores the migration history

of each group and shows how that experience has been

affected by US foreign policy and economic interests in each

country of origin. Civil rights, employment opportunities, and

political incorporation, as well as each group’s history of

collective mobilization and political activity, highlight the

varied ways they have engaged in the US political system.


AMST 357m (10429R) Latino Social Movements

Taught by Professor

Alicia Chavez

Tuesday 2:00pm-5:00pm

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills

these requirements:

Diversity Requirement

ASE, ASCL Majors:

Social and Political

Issues, OR

Elective

ASE Minors:

Elective




Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

An introduction to Caribbean studies, using

literature and film, with a focus on specific

islands (Cuba, Haiti, and Martinique)

examined in their transnational and global

contexts.


AMST 447 (10436R) Caribbean Literature

Taught by Professor

Lydie Moudileno


KAP 137

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills

these requirements: Elective: ASE, ASCL,

ASAF, ASAS Majors

Elective: ASE Minor




Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

Asian people have been living in what is

now called the United States since before the

founding of the nation, and have been

forming permanent, sizeable communities

distinguished by race since the mid-19th

century, with the rise of transpacific labor

migration on a large scale upon the closing

of the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the term

“Asian American” is relatively recent,

invented by radical students in the late 1960s

to name a multiethnic political identification

against racism and US imperialism. In little more than a decade,

it was transformed into a widely accepted, state-recognized,

politically neutral category of racial classification, gathering

under its jurisdiction significant and diverse populations of new

immigrants who have not always recognized substantive

connections to their predecessors. Writers who’d be classified as

“Asian American,” under this more neutral definition, have been

achieving fleeting or lasting acclaim in US for well over a

hundred years. Somewhat separately, the history of something

called “Asian American literature” begins

with Third Worldist revolutionary

movements of the late 1960s, but it has

been reimagined in dramatically different

ways over the subsequent decades. In this

course, we’ll learn about what it means, and

has meant, to call something “Asian

American literature,” by reading some of

the major texts on which various

conceptions of that term have been

grounded, as well as newer and older texts

that complicate it in useful ways.


AMST 449m (10438R) Asian American Literature

Taught by Professor

Viola Lasmana

Wednesday 4:30-6:50 PM

GFS 105

Fall 2018

*Course fulfills



Majors

Elective: ASE Minor

ASAS Literature and

Culture




Phone: 213-740-2426

[email protected]

ASE MAJORS:

American Studies (ASE)

African American Studies (ASAF)

Asian American Studies (ASAS)

Chicana/o and Latina/o

American Studies ~CALAS (ASCL)

For more information contact ASE

Academic Advisor Eric Greer at

[email protected] or 213.740.2534

The American Studies and Ethnicity Department at the University of

Southern California offers a two-semester honors program for qualified

students, first identified in ASE 350 or by the program advisor. Students

spend their first semester in the honors program in an honors senior

seminar, ASE 492, focused on developing their research and methods for

the honors thesis. During the second semester, all honors students are

required to take ASE 493, in which each completes a thesis project on a

topic of his or her own choosing under faculty direction. Contact the

program advisor for further information.


Senior Honors Option 2018-19

Dornsife.usc.edu/ase

2018-19 ASE Senior Honors Thesis

Application Deadline: Extended to

April 24, 2018

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